SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Medical Consultation Services - PDF of Notice
- Notice Date
- 5/12/2015
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Division of Acquisition Management, 12501 Ardennes Avenue, Suite 400, Rockville, Maryland, 20857, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- AHR152120
- Archive Date
- 6/11/2015
- Point of Contact
- Anthony Adebayo, Phone: 3014436923
- E-Mail Address
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anthony.adebayo@psc.hhs.gov
(anthony.adebayo@psc.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- PDF of Notice Pursuant to the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), the Contracting Officer may solicit from one source if the Contracting Officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source is reasonably available. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Program Support Center (PSC), Acquisition Management Services (AMS), on behalf of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) intends to sole source to: Dr. Bernard Friedman 5750 Bou Avenue Unit 1616 Rockville, MD 20852-5629 AHRQ seeks to obtain expert consultation services to help develop healthcare resource methods and metrics; track clinical and other impacts of the Affordable Care Act insurance coverage expansion on hospitals; and produce policy relevant research. This work will include the following tasks: (1) build appropriate robust analytic databases in support of several analytic projects; (2) utilize appropriate rigorous analytic methods to test and evaluate the cost and clinical questions for each of the projects; (3) provide results in the form of tables and figures, as well as draft manuscripts that will be reviewed and edited with collaborators. Dr. Bernard Friedman is uniquely qualified to perform these services. In the past, Dr. Friedman has analyzed the responses of hospitals to changes in Medicare and regulatory programs, the supply of expensive hospital-based services such as organ transplants, hip replacement surgery, and intensive care services to adults and infants. His more current research addresses preventable hospital admissions, readmissions, the impacts of patient safety events, hospital care use, and cost in Medicare Advantage plans vs fee-for-service. He has tremendous expertise in the research of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) databases. Dr. Friedman is a unique and invaluable source to conduct complex analyses that address hospital costs for patient with multiple chronic conditions, to understand the hospital and patient costs for ambulatory sensitive conditions treated in U.S. hospitals, to analyze the impact of robotic technology on use and outcomes of radical prostatectomy and hysterectomy, to analyze readmissions for patients with septicemia, and to analyze readmissions following admission for treatment of asthma. Dr. Friedman's work in health economics has been published in many recognized books and peer-reviewed journals such as Review of Economics and Statistics, Medical Care, Health Services Research, Inquiry, Health Care Financing Review, American Journal of Managed Care and Health Affairs. This is not a solicitation for competitive proposal. No solicitation document is available. All responsible sources that have determined that they can provide the same services may submit product information and a capabilities statement that speaks to the services AHRQ is seeking in this proposed acquisition. The email subject line must reference AHR152120. All responses are due by May 27, 2015, 12:00 PM Eastern Time and can be sent to Anthony Adebayo at Anthony.Adebayo@psc.hhs.gov. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract base upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.
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